Join the UDM community for a Motor City MakeoverThe
University of Detroit Mercy community is invited to participate in a Motor
City Makeover this Saturday, May 21 from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Volunteers
participating in the makeover, which is organized by Charley Jackson, Jr.,
coordinator of Government and Community Relations, in collaboration with
the University Commons Organization and Northstar
CDC, will clean up neighborhoods and areas near the McNichols Campus.

Volunteers will meet at 8:30 a.m. in front of the west entrance of Reno
Hall on the McNichols Campus or at the Northstar CDC offices, located at
8300 Puritan, one block south of UDM and two blocks west of Livernois. Those
meeting at Reno Hall prior to 8:30 a.m. will be shuttled to the Northstar
CDC offices by Jackson.

For more details or to volunteer as a member of the UDM community, please
contact Jackson by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 20, at 313.247.3402 or jacksoch@students.udmercy.edu.

Photo: UDM President Gerard L. Stockhausen, S.J., (left) joins students
and staff assisting Northstar CDC in cleaning debris near neighborhoods
and businesses on Livernois, McNichols and Puritan last September.

Commencement
2005 Photo Galleries
Photos from the University of Detroit Mercy McNichols
Campus and School
of Law Commencements are now online. Look for photos from School of
Dentistry Commencement, taking place this Saturday, May 21, to be posted
early next week.

UDM professors featured in film addressing spirituality
and the meaning of life
UDM Professor of Business Administration Michael Whitty and Associate Professor
of Physics Prasad Venugopal are featured in a new film about the meaning
of life and how spirituality exists in our diverse world, mirroring UDM’s
mission.

The documentary movie, O N E, features interviews with many local and national
leaders including well-known spiritual leaders and authors such as Deepak
Chopra, Father Thomas Keating and Robert Thurman.

This week, the local film opened in Southfield for a short run. Whitty
has coordinated a University community screening on Friday morning in UDM's
Commerce & Finance building, Room 134 at 9 a.m. The showing is free.

Oakland
County Executive speaks to Business and Society Class
On Tuesday, May 17, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson spoke to
Professor Mike Whitty’s Business and Society class about his efforts
to promote his county to investors both at home and abroad. These efforts
include Patterson’s plan to make Oakland County the first in the nation
to offer free wireless Internet service to residents throughout its 910
square-mile area, which would give the county an unprecedented advantage
in attracting high-tech firms.

Thumbs Up!David Koukal, associate professor of Philosophy and director
of the University Honors Program, presented "Dwelling in the Classroom/Learning
at a Distance: A Heideggerian Investigation of Distance Learning" to
the Seventh Annual Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Media
at Western Oregon University (Monmouth, OR), May 12-14.

Stephen Manning, associate professor of Political Science,
chaired the panel, "Formal Theory and Institutions in the Postcommunist
World," at the 63rd Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political
Science Association, held in Chicago, April 7-10.

Gail Presbey, associate professor of Philosophy, has spent
this past semester in India on a Fulbright research grant. In March, Presbey
participated on a Women’s Day panel discussion at the World Peace
Center in Pun, India, and attended a two-day workshop on “Conflict
Resolution: Principles, Practices, and Future” at the Peace Research
Center in India. She also spoke about walking 100 miles for the 75th Anniversary
of the 1930 Salt March to students attending Gandhi Summer Camp in April.

Stokes Baker, associate professor of Biology, has been
awarded a three-year National Science Foundation Educational Materials Development
Grant entitled, "Using Transgenic Plants that Express Green Fluorescent
Protein in Teaching Quantitative Experimental Skills to First Year Undergraduates."

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